Atlus pays homage to classic, first-person dungeon crawlers with The Dark Spire

I guess it shouldn’t come as too big a surprise that Atlus is bringing Success’ first person dungeon crawler The Dark Spire (aka Genmu no Tou to Tsurugi no Okite) to North America, since its published so many other Success games outside Japan. It is a pleasant surprise though, and will help add another substantial and unusual RPG to the US DS library when it comes out on March 10, 2009.

Like the Etrian Odyssey games, The Dark Spire is a first person dungeon crawler, where you explore countless floors of a single dungeon known as the Dark Spire. There’s a twist to make this dungeon crawler with custom characters – it truly pays homage to the original first person dungeon crawlers with two modes of play, classic and modern. In the modern version, you’ll see screens like the one at right, stylish, detailed and more colorful. If you choose to switch to the classic mode, The Dark Spire will look exactly like an 8-bit dungeon crawler.

I’m incredibly excited to see Atlus take the plunge and release The Dark Spire. I mean, look at Etrian Odyssey. You never would have expected that the original game would have become a cult classic, but it did, and it proves that there is a market for challenging dungeon crawlers.

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